Crooked Lessons from the Indian Wars / Book Review (original) (raw)

One aim of this article is to chide tl1e U.S. military-and Americans overall-for 1101 paying sufficient atte/1/ion to our historic relations with American Indians. After all, American Indians are the non-Westerners we Americans should know best. A review of American Indian history can shed importa111 light on our current enco1111ters with tribal peoples elsewhere. At the same time, however, great care needs to be taken. /11stead of just citing similarities-as analogies lead us to do-we must also take 11ote of differences, which we ca11 best do by using history as a/oil.